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by peter303 9y ago
You had to wait until goodvtelescope resolve the streak of the Mily Way was made of stars. Ditto that some the smudges in the sky were galaxies made of stars. That was one ofvEdwin Hubble's great discoveries.
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by peter303 9y ago
iPhone first helped them get the mobile OS right. Because MicroSoft had a tablet for a decade and its OS was horrible- a cluttered version of shrunk windows. If Apple had shrunk MacOS as an interface, that would have been awful too.
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by peter303 9y ago
The idiot should have used a lawyer to OK every answer. He made several huge legal errors by accepting full responsibility for content, always debatable for a protected media carrier. I am indifferent to whether Facebook survives, since I s
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by peter303 9y ago
Bravo! I have always wondered why people avoided the classic scifi novels. Often many of these where cerebral- more philosophy than action. But as far back as Twilight Zone and Outer Limits showed you could sucessfully film philosophical sc
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by peter303 9y ago
I have been waiting for ninth generation Intel laptops. So far just Asus is shipping a laptop with an Intel i9 6-core 12-thread CPU. I am hoping beyond hope that Apple leapfrogs to i9 at the June 2018 dev conference instead of the ancient i
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by peter303 9y ago
Look at System76 Linux line. The same configs MacBooks are about a third cheaper. The cases arent as elegant as Apples or other big name manufacturers.
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by peter303 9y ago
The most important point was overlooked in this article: when your credit score is partly computed from the credit scores of your social links, you tend to form elitist cliques. People with less wealth or financial skill or poltical demerit
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by peter303 9y ago
The first semester of calculas at MIT covered the same material as three semesters of calculas I took at the community college while in high school. You could interpret this two ways: (1) some schools just go faster than others and cover mo
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by peter303 9y ago
Even the largest computer screens fall short of the flexibility of a large table of index card piles. You can lay out piles in a 2D array or 2D separated groups. Then resuffle the piles. Each pile can be ordered by importance, time, or exp
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by peter303 9y ago
Mac HypeCard was a forerunner of both the web and powerpoint. You put some sort of text or multimedia on a screen. Then connected the screens together with button links. The topology was flexible.
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by peter303 9y ago
The system is a century old with original electromechanical controllers.
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by peter303 9y ago
'Pirate dialect' was during the vowel shift according to linguist McWhorter. Longer vowels were replacing the earlier shorter German ones.
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by peter303 9y ago
When I was in junior high school we had a monthly mail order kit from American Basic Science. I made things like an amplidier, radio receiver, ham radio transmitter. It cost $5 a month for a year, much of the pay from my paper route. http:
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by peter303 9y ago
Paper was way too expensive for most to waste on hygiene under wood pulp paper was invented in the late 1800s. As other posts mentions there were plenty of alternative methods, from your left hand, rags, corn cobs, etc.
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by peter303 9y ago
Did a postgrad do this study? :-)
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by peter303 9y ago
The has happened numerous times in the past, especially when they switched to timelines. Everything you thought deleted reappeared. Basically once in Facebook, always in Facebook.
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by peter303 9y ago
Hopefully the hotels of of the person instituting this policy will go bankrupt from the large decrease in international visitors. Karma. That person should think ahead a bit and realize the full consequences.
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by peter303 9y ago
I've heard the local technical university is seeing about third of the international students having visa delays. This was from a talk by a engineering dept head on March 26.
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by peter303 9y ago
Its a fair metric that the amount of maintenance in coding support is proportional to the number of lines of code you write. Assembly code is an order of magnitude lines longer than higher level languages. Otherwise I dont think Assembly is
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by peter303 9y ago
Self driving cars have lowered some LIDAR costs a factor of 20, with a promise of far more. I wonder if this can translate over into archeology and geology. Imsaw one project at SIGGRAPH using a cheap LIDAR.
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by peter303 9y ago
Next World Collider will be built in China. They are about the only major country increasing government R&D funds. The only exception would be if there is a breakthrough technology 100x more cost effective, i.e. you could build a 10x po
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by peter303 9y ago
Some outer solar system moons are mostly water ice. Theircores could be this phase of ice.
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by peter303 9y ago
Cloud may have done some these like 4 5 7 9 11 18 22
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by peter303 9y ago
Must brew cofee and cook toast too:-) How many kilowatts?
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by peter303 9y ago
Seismologists now have some tricks for locating hum sources. Standard earthquakes have an impulsive start. So with four or more seismograms you can triangulate for the unknowns x, y, z and t0. Hum noises dont have an definitive starting tim
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by peter303 9y ago
I read similar stories about Japan in the 1980s
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by peter303 9y ago
Columbia pop-linguist McWhorter suggests strong verbs in Germanic languages may have been a Semitic influence.
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by peter303 9y ago
1970 here
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by peter303 9y ago
Bitcoin down almost 70% since high
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by peter303 9y ago
Maybe its some calming experience created by Nature to make it easier to accept death. All creatures die.

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